Abstract
Because of the effects of nuclear and fossil-based energy on the environment, economics, and security in the world, the need for alternative energy sources has grown steadily and dramatically during the last years. An increasing attraction in renewable power sources, due to rising energy expenses and country-level tax inducement, is driving the research to advance a sequence of improving unified resolutions and novel energy generation equipment. The novel wind turbine installation and the novel wind farm building are critical procedures for long time energy generation. In this chapter, a comprehensive analysis, which combines ARAS and ENTROPY methods, is structured to choose appropriate turbines when improving a wind power plant. The various wind turbine brands were evaluated on different classes (financial, customer satisfaction, environmental, and technical). Data on wind turbines is acquired from 2 MW wind turbine manufacturers.
TopIntroduction
By diverse kinds of energy resources (for example, coal, wood), power has been obtained over the centuries. Meanwhile, there is growing worry over environmental/global generation of waste. This has prompted on a long-term energy supply, which entails more efficient energy usage, reduced pollution, and implicitly, lower energy consumption. These factors have led to a greater focus on short-term stored energy supplies, the most developed of which being wind energy. The pressure differential generated through the sun's uneven heating of the land and sea creates wind energy. With fast growth during the last years, wind energy technology has emerged as the most potential option to existing energy systems (Lee, Chen & Kang, 2009). One of the solutions for completing the Kyoto Protocol and combating global warming has been wind energy (Gamboa, Munda, 2007). Many nations have invested in wind energy which today satisfies 4 percent of global electricity demand and is increasing in value every day. To produce electric, a wind energy station incurs 3 chief kinds of expenses: financing, capital, and running expenses. The finance expenses are the expenses of obtaining the essential money for running and constructing a wind energy station; the capital expenses are the expenses of installing and connecting the wind energy station to the grid; and the running expenses are the expenses of maintaining and operating the wind energy station. The onshore designs have a high capital expense, ranging from 75 percent to 90 percent of total expense, with wind turbines accounting for 64 percent of entire expense for a generally 5MW onshore design. Because of better manufacturing processes, automation, and mass production, the capital expense of making wind turbines has continuously decreased over the last twenty years.
The most essential components of these systems are wind turbines, which transform wind motion energy into electrical energy. As a result, for long-term operation, greater accuracy and attention must be paid to wind turbine selection. Nonetheless, the proper wind turbine selection is extremely critical because the expenses of the wind turbines make up the plurality of the entire expense for a wind energy station design. Furthermore, the appropriateness of wind turbines for a certain site may have an important impact on their capacity factor.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Wind Power: Or wind energy is the use of wind turbines to generate electricity.
Global Warming: It is the current rise in temperature of the air and oceans. It happens because humans burn coal, oil, and natural gas, and cut down forests.
Low-Carbon Power: It is electricity produced with substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fossil fuel power generation.
Wind Turbine: It is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.
Energy Supply: It is the delivery of fuels or transformed fuels to point of consumption. It potentially encompasses the extraction, transmission, generation, distribution, and storage of fuels. It is also sometimes called energy flow.
Climate Change: It includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns.
Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) Methods: These methods are used when numerous criteria (or objectives) must be examined simultaneously to rank or choose between the alternatives being assessed.